In the Media

Tiktok is opening  its first office in Switzerland. Zurich scores highly with its economic stability, high quality of life and talent from all over the world – from ETH and ZHdK to a thriving start-up scene. Article in German.

DeepCode, an ETH Zurich / D-INFK spin-off acquired by Snyk in 2020, has been listed by Analytics Insight among the top 5 AI tolls for engineers to boost productivity. 

Sail Biomedicines’ Kerry Benenato and Rajesh Ramaswamy (ETH Computer Science alumnus) discuss efforts to leverage AI to decipher the biological and chemical codes that might resolve these issues, transforming a discovery process into an engineering project.

Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin travelled to Sofia on 7 May for a one-day visit. His programme included meetings with Bulgaria’s President Rumen Radev and Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov, as well as a visit to the renowned Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology (INSAIT), which was co-founded and architected by Martin Vechev, Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich.

Cristian Grossmann, CEO D-INFK spin-off Beekeeper, discusses how to address the persistent retention crisis after survey reveals alarming turnover in manufacturing industry.  

Top AI models excel at math problems but lack reasoning needed for Math Olympiad proofs. The new research paper, titled "Proof or Bluff? Evaluating LLMs on 2025 USA Math Olympiad," comes from a team of researchers at ETH Zurich and INSAIT at Sofia University led by doctoral student Ivo Petrov and Professor Martin Vechev.

Duolingo, co-founded by ETH alumnus Severin Hacker, plans to replace certain human workers with artificial intelligence (AI).  According to the CEO Luis von Ahn, some processes will have to be completely rethought or systems redesigned from scratch. Read article in German.

Two francs an hour, available around the clock and amazingly patient: an AI chatbot developed by ETH students is replacing the traditional tutor. 

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, named Professor Torsten Hoefler the recipient of the ACM Prize in Computing for fundamental contributions to high-performance computing and the ongoing AI revolution.